Wish.com

English

Etymology

From the domain name of the e-commerce platform Wish, because many poor-quality and counterfeit goods have been sold on it, itself from wish + .com (created as an application that allowed shoppers to create wish lists of their favorite products before matching them with merchants).

Noun

Wish.com

1. (attributive, Internet, slang, derogatory) Used to denote that something is low-quality or an inferior copy.

   Synonyms: (Britain) BTEC, (US, Canada) dollar-store, poor man's, (Britain) Poundland, (Britain) pound-shop, (Britain) Tesco Value

   • 2021 October 29, Ellie Jurmann, “Horror Movies for Bedtime Stories”, in Post, Providence, RI: Brown University, page 5:

     When I sit and watch Insidious, I cannot help but smile at the Wish.com version of Darth Maul whom I am supposed to tremble at the sight of.

   • 2022, Mary Katherine Backstrom, Crazy Joy: Finding Wild Happiness in a World That's Upside Down, unnumbered page:

     I feel like this concept is the Wish.com version of reincarnation.

   • 2022, John Dorney, Jessica Regan, & Tom Salinsky, Best Pick: A Journey Through Film History and the Academy Awards, page 150:

     But ultimately, it's the Wish.com version of a David Lean epic, partway between a pound-shop Kwai and a half-decent episode of Columbo, […]

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Wish.com.

Translations

used to denote something considered to be low-quality or an inferior copy

• Hungarian: wishes (hu)